Ladder Health — $7M Seed
Nina Capital leads $7M Seed for virtual-first pediatric developmental care company delivering AI-supported care through more than 80 provider organizations and health systems.
Nina Capital
Seed
$7M
June 23, 2026
Pediatric · Behavioral Health · Telehealth
The Deal
Ladder Health, a Boston-based virtual-first pediatric developmental care company, announced a $7M Seed round on June 23, 2026, led by Nina Capital with participation from Mairs and Power Venture Capital, South Dakota First Capital, 25madison Health, Hatteras Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Jumpstart Capital, White Oak Enterprises, Groove Capital, and 7Rock Ventures. Led by CEO Mitch Mudra, the company delivers AI-powered developmental and therapeutic care for children by activating caregivers and extending care beyond the clinic. The capital funds expansion across North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Maryland, entry into additional states, and continued investment in its AI-enabled care platform and health-system partnerships.
Context
This is the first clean, in-window, net-new US maternal-pediatric venture round to clear verification in roughly seven weeks, so the signal value is partly that the funding drought finally broke and partly where it broke: pediatric developmental and therapeutic care, not maternity or primary care. Developmental and therapy capacity (early intervention, speech, OT, behavioral support) is heavily clinic-bound and waitlist-constrained, and Ladder is positioning around the access gap by pushing a virtual-first, caregiver-activation model rather than another telehealth video front end. The B2B distribution is the tell: the company says it already works with more than 80 provider organizations and health systems across Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Maryland, which places it in the pediatric digital-health layer PHD has tracked as structurally underfunded (see the May 7 Pediatric Translation Gap deep dive) and reinforces the broader 2026 pediatric behavioral and developmental funding thread (Backpack Healthcare's $14M Series A in May sits in the same lane; see also Develo's $14M Series A). Worth watching whether the caregiver-activation plus health-system-partnership model is what finally threads the pediatric reimbursement needle that point solutions have struggled with.